Kariri Xocó Village
Where the Earth Sings and the River Embraces
The Kariri-Xocó Village was born in the breath of the waters of the Velho Chico and in the silent embrace of the ancestral land. Located in Porto Real do Colégio, Alagoas: where Kariri and Xocó intertwined destinies, forming a history of unity and resistance. The village is more than territory: it is a sacred womb, where memory is the seed and time, a guardian.
Organizational context
With a traditional organization that preserves shamans, chiefs, tribal councils and family heads, the village sustains its social and spiritual structure around the sacred ritual of Ouricuri, an ancestral mystery that orders life, faith and identity from early childhood.
The struggle for land has always accompanied the Kariri-Xocó people, especially after the expropriations caused by major projects such as the Sobradinho Hydroelectric Plant. Even today, the right to land and memory is sown with courage in each generation.
Culture is alive: the Toré echoes, bodies are painted with the colors of the enchanted, maracas resonate like ancestral hearts. Although the original language has been partially lost, new winds of linguistic rescue blow among the young, renewing what time tried to silence.
The economy, which was once based on brick production and traditional ceramics, today flourishes with indigenous crafts and the promotion of culture in schools, fairs and events throughout Brazil — a movement started by families who, between 1970 and 1990, migrated to big cities in search of work, taking with them the seeds of memory.
More than a territory, the Kariri-Xocó Village is the reflection of a people who, among water, mud and songs, refuse to disappear.
It is the strength that sings in the sand, it is the root that blooms in resistance, it is the living memory that dances to the sound of Velho Chico.
